![]() ![]() ![]() The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Duration: 02:25 Door knockers on The Silk Road. Beginning in Ecuador, Katy looks at how mining and shrimp farming are helping to drive President Xi Jinping’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative in one of the most environmentally diverse countries in the world, where the ‘rights of nature’ are protected in the constitution. In the age of the Silk Road, caravans not juggernauts carried goods. In the first of a new, four-part series, Katy Watson, the BBC’s South America correspondent explores how China’s ambitious New Silk Road is impacting the lives of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. ![]() Ecuador now provides over half of all the shrimp consumed in China, and as the price of shrimp increases, so does its appeal to modern-day pirates who regularly raid shrimp farms and their workers in the Gulf of Guayaquil, hoping to plunder their precious catch. On the other side of the country, shrimp farms line mile upon mile of Pacific coastline, helping a nation of 17 million people to become the largest exporter of that popular crustacean in the world. It has become a huge challenge for a government trying their utmost to support mining projects that might help boost a fragile economy. A war correspondent for the AP news agency and a journalist for Paris Match take us on an extended trip through six countries and cultures from Bursa in Turkey to Xi'an in China. In this region a Chinese run copper mine, Mirador, has grabbed the headlines over recent years, leading to controversy, resistance and talk of impending disaster. The Silk Road: With Alfred de Montesquiou. The Cordillera del Condor mountain range in the east of Ecuador is where the mountains meets the jungles and the Andes meets the Amazon. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin John Murray, 368 pages, 25 Theres. ![]()
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